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| Dillon, Stephen V. | 3 |
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Dillon, Stephen V.; Franks, David D. – Nation's Schools, 1974
Gives six reasons why open education doesn't always work and offers suggestions to remedy the problems. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Failure, Open Education, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedFranks, David D.; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1974
An argument has been developed suggesting that a research model appropriate to open education evaluation could be systematically developed out of the writings of Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, Robert White, and M. Brewster Smith. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Methods, Open Education, Program Development
Peer reviewedDillon, Stephen V.; Franks, David D. – Educational Forum, 1975
The authors contend that the transmission-of-knowledge model is more apt to condition learners to defend themselves from problems than it is to develop in learners an ability to cope with their problems. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development, Educational Environment, Open Education
Peer reviewedDillon, Stephen V.; Franks, David D. – Elementary School Journal, 1973
Open education classes for elementary school children are designed to develop personal competence. Decision making is emphasized as students contract for their own education. (ST)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Competence, Decision Making
PDF pending restorationFranks, David D.; And Others – 1976
Five parochial open elementary schools were compared with two traditional parochial schools to determine their effects on student attitudes toward self and learning, as well as the development of educational and other cognitive skills. All schools but one were located in the inner-city. Males and females, blacks and whites, as well as various…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Black Students
